Work Locations: Hartford, CT | Raleigh, NC | Richardson, TX | Tempe, AZ
Work Mode: Hybrid
Contract Duration: 12 Months
Experience Required: 6–8 Years
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in CI/CD pipeline development, AWS cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code, and container orchestration. The ideal candidate will design, implement, and maintain automated deployment pipelines and scalable cloud environments while improving application delivery, reliability, and operational efficiency.
Primary Skills
GitLab CI/CD,
GitHub Actions,
Jenkins,
AWS Cloud Infrastructure,
CI/CD Pipeline Design and Automation,
Terraform,
CloudFormation
Docker / Kubernetes
Amazon ECS / EKS
Build Automation and Continuous Delivery
Secondary Skills
AWS Services
- EC2, VPC, IAM
- Route 53, ALB/NLB, Auto Scaling
- S3, EBS, EFS
- RDS, DynamoDB
- Lambda, API Gateway
Monitoring and Operations
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Splunk
- Log Analysis and Troubleshooting
- Incident Management
- Root-Cause Analysis (RCA)
Infrastructure Automation
- Terraform Modules and Reusability
- Terraform Workspaces
- Environment Management
- Infrastructure Provisioning and Configuration
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Release management and deployment standards.
- Production deployments and rollback strategies.
- Artifact repositories and change management.
- Cloud security and IAM best practices.
- CI/CD pipeline debugging and infrastructure troubleshooting.
- Agile delivery and cross-functional collaboration.
- Strong ownership, stakeholder communication, and incident resolution skills.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain enterprise CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins.
- Automate software builds, testing, packaging, and deployments.
- Provision and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation.
- Develop reusable infrastructure modules and maintain consistent environments.
- Deploy and manage containerized applications using Docker, Amazon ECS, EKS, and Kubernetes.
- Configure and maintain AWS networking, identity, storage, database, and compute services.
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting using CloudWatch and Splunk.
- Troubleshoot pipeline failures, deployment issues, infrastructure problems, and application incidents.
- Perform root-cause analysis and implement corrective actions to improve reliability.
- Support production deployments, release coordination, rollback planning, and change management.
- Apply cloud security best practices and appropriate access controls.
- Collaborate with development, testing, security, and infrastructure teams to improve delivery processes.
- Maintain technical documentation, deployment procedures, and operational standards.
Required Qualifications
- 6–8 years of relevant experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, or infrastructure automation.
- Hands-on experience with GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, and/or Jenkins.
- Strong knowledge of AWS cloud services and infrastructure architecture.
- Experience with Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
- Practical experience with Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or EKS.
- Understanding of build automation, automated testing, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, incident management, and root-cause analysis.
- Strong troubleshooting, communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
- Previous end-client experience is mandatory.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs, as required by applicable law. Applicants who require a reasonable accommodation during the hiring process may request assistance.
Employment may be contingent upon the successful completion of job-related pre-employment screening, which may include background and reference checks and, where permitted by applicable law and applicable to the position, drug testing. All such screening will be conducted in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
